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  1. Good leaders are people with a conscience who respect and reward all the four drives of other stakeholders [the drive to acquire, to defend, to bond, and to comprehend], even as they respect and reward their own drives.
    -- Paul R. Lawrence

  2. The classic trading system of exchange is identified with David Ricardo, the early nineteenth-century economist who first analytically clarified it.

    As practiced today, Ricardo's classic system results in win-win exchanges when both trading partn . . .Read More
    -- Paul R. Lawrence

  3. To do the right thing, a leader needs to understand what it takes to do things right, and to make sure they actually get done.
    -- Robert I. Sutton

  4. [how can one tell if an idea is any good?] Here’s the simple litmus test: Does your community care? Everyone has a “community” of constituents—customers, users, readers, clients, etc. Share your ideas liberally. If your community engages with . . .Read More
    -- Scott Belsky

  5. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
    -- Aristotle



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